Dumping-car.



No. 652,930. Patented July 3, 1900. J. J. SOUDER.

DUMPING GAR.

(Application filed Apr. 28; 1899. Renewad Dec. 8, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES INVENTOR UNITED STATES.

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JACOB J. SOUDER, OF WVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

DUMPlNG-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,930, dated July 3, 1900. Application filed April 28, 1899. Renewed December 6,1899. Serial No. 739,439. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

3e it known that I, JACOB J. SOUDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dumping-Cars, ofwhich the following is a full andcorrect description.

The invention has relation generally to dumping-cars and particularly to cars of this class which are designed for the transportation in bulk of coarse and heavy materials such as coals, ores, and the like, as distinguished from the cereals and other fine granular matter. A type of cars of this class is found in United States Patent No. 464,086, which was issued to me on the 1st day of December, 1891. That car has been found in its essential functions to operate satisfactorily; butin some instances objection has been made to the location of the door-closing mechanism within the interior space of the hopper and also to the occupation of an important portion of the central space of the car by the longitudinal central sill. I Accordingly the construction of the hopper has been modified by the substitution for the transversely-rectangular sill of a transyersely A-shaped or inverted-V-shaped centrally-located metallic support which divides the lower portion of the chamber of the car into two parts and which extends from end to end of the hoppers proper in their discharging portion, while the winding-shaftand its lifting-chains have by the adoption of this construction been transferred from the interior to the exterior of the car.

The invention relates also to various novel parts or combinations of parts embraced in the details of construction of the car, as will appear from the following description and from the several paragraphs which succeed the same.

In the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a car of the gondola or elevated-end pattern, to which my newly-invented improvements have been applied, the view being in part in side elevation and in part in vertical longitudinal central section. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the hopper-discharging portion of the car and lookin g toward the inclined face of the interior of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail of one end of the hopper as seen before the central A-shaped supporting rib or girder has been attached thereto. Fig. 4c is a view of the lower or primary member of the compound /\-shaped supporting rib or girder detached. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the auxiliary surmounting-rib orj crown-piece detached. Fig.5 is an edge view of one of the transversely-extending binding and supporting bars or chute-irons, which by their hooked extremities engage and rest upon the outer sills of the car. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a bearing-frame or reinforce which is applied within the open A-shaped portion of the transverse supporting-bars or chute-irons. Fig. 7 is a view of the door-closing shaft and of the actuating-shaft to which it is geared detached.

As best seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the side walls sw of the car a are in this instance placed vertically along the sides or outer boundaries of the hopper, while each opposite one-half of the hopper his downwardly inclined from a point near the upper extremity of the carframe and to a point within the inner vertical plane of the track-wheels, whence it is extended vertically downward to a point substantially in horizontal plane with the axles of such wheels. At each extremity of the discharging-opening of the hoppers hh a chute iron or bearingbar chi, having angular terminal hooksho and being intermediately of the depressed or flattened W shape represented in Fig. 5, extends across the bed-frame space and has perforations to perrnit it to receive and to be securely riveted to the flanges hf upon'the corresponding vertical portion he of the hopper. Extending from end to end of the discharging portion of the hopper is the primary A-shaped metallic girder cs, which bestrides the upwardly-extending A-shaped central portion as of the chute-iron or bearing-bar chi, each of these parts being provided with suitable perforations to permit them to be firmly riveted together. To still further strengthen this central rib-like or fin-like girder, the auxiliary A shaped reinforce or crown piece cp is mounted astride the primary member or girder cs, and this secondary member or crownpiece is riveted to both the chute iron chi and the primary girder cs.

The hopper-doors hd are at their upper extremity made fast to hinge-plates 71p, which are secured to outer sills 0s 0s, and at their inner extremity are provided with liftingchains 10, which are connected to an elevating-shaft cs, which is supported in suitable hangers 72a of the center sill ces and which is operated by a winding-shaft ws, to which it is suitably geared, as seen in Fig. 1 and 7.

In Figs. 2 and 6 is seen a triangular braceframe if, which is adapted to the /\-shaped space within the A-shaped portion of the chute-iron and is auxiliary to the outwardly resisting strength of the chute-iron and to the chain mechanism shown and already described. This brace-franie if is in practice provided with a narrow base, as is best seen in Fig. 2, to adapt it to the corresponding narrow space in the chute-iron. In its base it has a swivel-pin sp, a swivel-arm so, oppositely-projecting supporting-lugs oZ ol, and an operating-rod or. This swivel-arm, together with its related mechanism, is similar to that shown and described by me in an application for patent, serially numbered 714,072, filed by me in the United States Patent Ollice on the 22d day of April, 1899, and it is adapted to be employed in connection with the closing-doors in the same manner; but it is not herein claimed as novel.

Except as hereinbefore provided the bedframe bf, including the longitudinal center sills or half-sills Zcs, the outer sills 0s, and the transverse sills is may be of the ordinary construction of this class of cars.

In the operation of the parts when the swivel-bar is moved from its engagement with the supporting-lugs 01 01 the hopper-doors hd will be released from their position, as seen in Figs. 1. and 2, and the chains being also released the doors will fall and the contents of the'hopper will be discharged. The chains being then again wound upon the shaft, the doors will thereby be closed, when the swivelbar may be moved to its engaging position, its ends resting upon the lugs ol 0!, as before.

The invention having been thus particularly described, what is claimed is 1. In a dumping-car, the combination with the bed-frame of the car, of the oppositelyplaced metallic end sections, having inclined and vertical portions as described; the chuteirons, resting upon opposite parts of the bedframe, and placed in coincidence with the vertical ends, to support the same, and the compound girder, flanged as specified, e11- gaged with the flanges upon the end sections, and extending from end to end of the discharge-opening of the hopper; substantially as set forth. I

2. In adumping-car, the combination with the bed-frame, and with the vertical frame of the car; of the hopper, embracing oppositelyplaced end sections, each comprising an inclined and avertical portion, facing the center of the ear, the vertical portion having outstanding flanges as described; atransverselyextending supportingbar or chute iron, adapted to be united to the flanges of the end section, and the described girder, A-shapcd in transverse section, having end flanges as shown, extending from end to end of the vertical portion of the hopper, bestriding the central portion of the chute iron, and the superposed outstanding flange, and united to the flange, and to the vertical portion of the end section; substantially as shown.

In a dumping-car, a hopper which in its discharging portion is provided with a central support or girder which is composed of metallic plates, and is of A shape in transverse section, and is rigidly attached to the end walls of such discharging portion.

4. In a dumping-car, a hopper which in its dischargingopening has a metallic transversely-A-shaped girder, which is in plane with the center sill of the car, and which is composed of two sections, one of which is received within the other, and each of which is secured to the vertical end portion of the discharging-opening of the hopper.

In testimony whereof I have hereto, at WVashington, District of Columbia, on this 26th day of April, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, aifixed my signature.

JACOB J. SOUDER.

\Vitnesses:

ALIcE Booennn, 0. II. Hoovna. 

